Race Me in a Lobster Suit Audiobook Summary
Knit me into a cocoon. Help me eat a burrito. Pretend to be a chair at my dinner party. Wrestle a Komodo dragon. Race me in a lobster suit. Author Kelly Mahon posts absurd gig ads online, and shares the conversations she had with the brave souls who wanted the job.
We’re living in a gig economy. But would you respond to an online ad seeking someone to search for escaped ants? Or take an offer for a free tattoo by someone who “needs the practice?” How about a mattress for sale “tainted by geriatric love” or a workout plan that involves throwing Virginia hams? And if you hit reply, and the poster is sketchy about the details or offers to pay you with a gift card for clams, how long would you keep the conversation going?
When New York City copywriter Kelly Mahon started posting weird, fake gig ads as a creative outlet, she found that there was someone interested in every bizarre offer she came up with. And the subsequent awkward email threads were equally hilarious and bizarre. Race Me in a Lobster Suit collects Mahon’s funniest fabrications, plus the hysterical email conversations that followed as she ratcheted up the crazy. While some respondents become suspicious, others seem willing to play along with the joke. And don’t worry, everyone involved agreed to share their emails in the book, so there are no hard feelings.
In a world where it seems like everyone’s suspicious of everyone else, it’s nice to know that there are still people who will at least consider helping a stranger reenact a recurring spider nightmare or explain the principles of pig Latin to a baffled mother of three.
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Race Me in a Lobster Suit Audiobook Narrator
Dara Rosenberg is the narrator of Race Me in a Lobster Suit audiobook that was written by Kelly Mahon
Read by Dara Rosenberg, Susan Jackson, L. J. Ganser, Brian Hansbury, Dan Bittner, Michael David Axtell, and Lauren Fortgang
About the Author(s) of Race Me in a Lobster Suit
Kelly Mahon is the author of Race Me in a Lobster Suit
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Race Me in a Lobster Suit Full Details
Narrator | Dara Rosenberg |
Length | 2 hours 55 minutes |
Author | Kelly Mahon |
Category | |
Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
Release date | March 29, 2024 |
ISBN | 9781982619121 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Race Me in a Lobster Suit is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781982619121.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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